Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-02-19
BILL VETOED.
President Vetoes the Dependant
Pension Bill.
He is Not willing to Approve a Bill Pre-
senting the Objections lie Sees ia
This One. and Therefore
N"toes II.
THE PREsInRNT'a MrssAnr

the outset that TINS is the first general bill
that has been sanctioned by Congress since
the close OF the late civil war, permitting
pensions to soldiers and sailors who served
in that war upon the ground Of service and
present disability alone and in the absence
of any injuries received by the casualties
or incidents Of such service.
| The President then goes on to review tho
pension legislation. Almost constant PEN
sion legislation since the close of the war.
which has resulted in placing upon the pen
sion rolls, on the list OF last July, 365, 1853
pensioners, OF all classes ,6O5 Of whom
were survivors of the war of the Rebellion.
and their widows and dependents, and for
whom Si5,00O,00O have been appropriated
Tor the current year, and for whom $685.
64,Sll have been expended from 1861 to
July 1886. While annually paving out
such vast sum for pensions already
| granted, 1t is now proposed, the President
says by the bill to award a service pension
TO the soldiers of all wars In which the
| United States has been engaged, including.
OF course, the war Of the Rebellion, and to
pay those entitled to the benefits Of the act
the sum OF twelve dollars per month. So
far as 1t relates to the soldiers OF the late
civil war the bounty It affords them is given
thirteen years earlier than it has been furn-
| tshed to the soldiers of any other war, and
before large number OF its benetciaries
have advanced in age beyond the strength
and vigor Of the prime OF life
1t exacts only military or naval service
OF three months, without any requirements
of actual engagement with an enemy in
battle, and without subsection to any Of
the actual dangers of war
| The pensions it awards is allowed to en-
| listed men who have not suffered the least
| injury, disability, loss or damage Of any
| kind incurred in, or in any degree referablo
| to their military service including those
| who never reached the front at all, and
| those discharged from rcndezvouses at the
| close OF the war; If discharged three months
| after enlistment. Under the last call of the
| President for troops in December, 1854
| ll,D3 men were furnished who were thus
| discharged. Critlcizing the section of the
| bill allowing this pension, the language OF
which seems to the President so uncertain
and liable to such conflicting constructions
and to be subject to such unjust and mis-
| chlev0us application as to alone furnish
| sufficient ground for disappearing it, the
| President says: Persons seeking to OBJ
tain the pension provided by this section
must be now or hereafter.
|. Suffering from mental or physical disa-
bihty
.. Such disability must not be the result
| OF their own vicious habits or gross care
| lessness
3. Such disability must be such as to in
| capacitate them from the performance Of
| labor in such a degree as to render them un-
able to earn n support.
4. They must be dependent upon their
| daily labor for support.
5. Upon proof of these conditions they
shall be placed on the list of invalid pen.
sioncrs of the United States and be en-
titled to receive for such total inability to
| procure their subsistence by daily labor,
twelve dollars per month.
| Passing on to consideration OF their
| conditions, the President says at will be
| observed that there is no limitation or def
milton OF the incapactating injury or all
mont itself. II need only be such a degree
| of disability from any cause as renders the
claimant unable to earn support by labor
II seems to me that the support here men
| toned, as one which cannot be earned is a
complete and entire support with no dimi-
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